Mud-club
Vehicle & Technical => Military => Topic started by: chimo on September 05, 2007, 11:17:02
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hi guys and gals i have just ben offered an austin champ for a good price is this any good for using as an offroader as i can find little snippets of info on the net i know of its use in various conflicts and that they are totally waterproof but what else can you tell me
cheers people :D :D
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They are great off road, and were far better than the Land Rovers that replaced them. M O D were cost cutting even then.
Main problems could be parts, they aren't cheap, and if you are fortunate enough to find one with the RR engine, rather than the one built under licence by Austin, seals etc would be a pig to locate.
It's also worth noteing that they can make a Range Rover look frugal when it comes to fuel consumption.
Has the one you have been offered benn converted to unleaded fuel? If yes, make sure that it's a genuine conversion. People have been known to lie to make a sale. The only one I know of on the road local to me, hasn't, owner has to travel to Swillington to buy four star, and it isn't cheap.
All in all a great motor, but not one that you would want to break too often, running costs of the genuine article will be high.
Pete.
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one of the best ppl to ask about that would be big ant i know his dad has had a fare colection of them and knows all the problems that can go wrong with them he say the that there as capable if not better off road as a landrover but yeah i would ask him about it
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yes my dear daddy :P had 14 at one point kinda collected them lol any probs am sure he will be happy to help :) just pm/poke me on here about it :)
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They go as fast in reverse as they do forwards too!!!
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They go as fast in reverse as they do forwards too!!!
and there not from italy how strange is that :P
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I saw one parked on a drive in Morecambe the other day don't know if it was a runner.
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Great thing about the Champ was its seperate gear lever for forward/reverse. if you got stuck in the mud you could by quickly switching from forwards to reverse get a rocking pendulum motion going, this would increase with each switch until you built up enough momentum to get out, try doing that in a Land Rover !